No.  98. 

"  J',  •^>;''  f 

In  Assembly 9 

February  21,  1887. 


COMMUNICATION 

From  John  B.  Yates,  relative  to  the  lotte- 
ries. 

Samuel  Starkweather,  Esq.  Chairman,  Sfc. 

SIR — in  answer  to  the  enquiries  of  the  committee,  I  beg  leave  to  state,  that 
the  managers  of  the  New- York  State  Lotteries- appear  from  the  tenor  of  the 
questions  still  to  be  regarded  as  public  agents,  and  accountable  not  only  for 
their  conduct  as  managers,  but  for  the  profits  of  their  operations.    While  we 
express  an  entire  willingness  to  state  any  facts  connected  with  our  operations, 
and  to  submit  to  any  proper  examination  of  our  conduct  of  whatsoever  charac- 
ter it  may  be,  and  from  whatever  source  it  may  originate  :  yet  we  beg  leave 
respectfully  to  say,  that  if  any  citizen  of  the  state  of  New-York,  can  have  rights 
constitutionally  inviolable,  such  rights  must  be  as  securely  held  by  us,  as  by 
any  other;  and  we  confidently  suggest,  that  the  only  tribunal  before  which 
such  rights  can  be  fairly  investigated,  and  an  efficient  adjudication  made,  is 
the  judiciary  of  our  country.    No  legislative  enactment  can  impair  the  obliga- 
tion of  an  anterior  contract,  made  under  the  law  as  it  then  was,  whether  such 
contract  shall  have  been  made  in  p.^suance  of  a  state  grant,  with  considera- 
tion and  advantage  to  the  state  or  not.    If  such  grant  has  been  exceeded,  or 
its  conditions  have  not  been  performed,  there  is  an  established  common  law 
proceeding,  by  which  that  fact  may  be  ascertained,  and  no  outrage  committed 
on  any  individual  rights.    Even  this  language  may  perhaps  be  considered  by 
some  as  unnecessarily  strong.    I  am  however  yet  to  learn,  and  much  more  must 
be  experienced,  before  I  can  be  made  to  believe  that  in  our  community,  under 
the  laws  and  civil  institutions  of  the  country  of  my  birth,  any  good  or  favoura- 
ble feelings  of  my  fellow-citizens,  are  hazarded  by  the  independent  assertion 
®f  our  rights.    Since  the  fall  of  1818,  when  I  first  acted  as  a  state  manager  in 
the  present  lotteries,  the  attacks  upon  the  board  of  managers,  and  sometimes 
with  peculiar  violence  on  me  personally,  have  been  annually  repeated ;  and 
since  April  1823,  the  time  when  Mr.  Mclntyre  and  I  commenced  under  the  law 
of  1822,  they  have  not  been  remitted.  The  documents  accompanying  the  Jour- 
nals of  the  house  for  those  years,  will  exhibit  the  various  statements  and  com- 
munications made  on  this  subject.    In  March  1824,  within  one  year  after  we 
commenced  under  this  law,  an  anonymous  communication  was  made  to  the 
Speaker  of  the  house,  and  referred  to  a  committee  of  which  Mr.  Whiting  of  On- 
tario was  chairman;  a  copy  of  the  answer  made  by  me,  and  the  report  of  the 
committee,  I  herewith  send  you.    The  year  following,  in  our  endeavours  to 
prevent  abuses,  we  incurred  the  displeasure  cf  some  of  the  venders,  and  were 
again  obliged  to  vindicate  our  conduct. 

You  will  perceive  by  the  report  of  the  Comptroller  and  Secretary,  what  is 
**ie  sit  uation  of  the  lotteries  as  appears  by  the  papers  and  books  in  their  offices- 


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of  last  winter.  In  relation  to  the  sale  of  tickets  not  authorised  by  the  laws  of 
this  state,  I  aver  that  we  have  always  avoided  selling  them,  with  the  exception 
of  those  for  the  sale  of  the  estate  of  Mr.  Jefferson.  Those  foreign  tickets,  as 
they  are  called,  in  which  we  are  interested,  were  purchased  from  us  within  the 
ptate  where  we  had  a  right  to  sell  them,  and  in  which  w  e  have  lottery  contracts. 
Efforts  have  been  repeatedly  made  by  us  to  exclude  foreign  tickets  from  the 
slate  altogether;  and  we  have  not  onl^  expressed  our  willingness,  but  an  anxi- 
et)  that  the  law  should  be  so  framed,  that  evasion  shall  not  be  possible.  It', 
however,  in  consequence  of  any  le:al  defect,  the  law  cannot  be  enforced,  our 
situation  becomes  particularly  embarrassing.  The  tickets  ol  lotteries  in  w  hich 
we  have  no  interest  are  thrown  into  the  market  at  reduced  prices;  and  we  can- 
not sell  those  of  this  state  :  It  is  therefore  our  wish,  and  decidedly  for  our  inte- 
rest, that  they  should  be  excluded,  if  it  can  be  done  effectually.  This  may  be 
accomplished  more  certainly  by  a  moderate  penalty,  with  sufficient  care  that 
no  want  of  form  shall  offer  the  hope  of  escape,  than  to  be  enforced  by  any  se- 
vere penal  sanction  disproportioned  to  the  offence,  which  will  always  increase 
the  difficulty  of  conviction. 

Relative  to  the  subject  of  licenses  for  the  sale  of  our  own  tickets,  there  is  much 
to  be  said.  There  is  either  a  power  to  require  it,  and  to  impose  so  heavy  a  de- 
mand as  to  amount  to  a  prohibition,  or  there  is  no  power  to  impose  it  at  all.  It 
is  not  however  my  design  in  this  communication  to  investigate  any  question  of 
law,  but  merely  shew  the  reasons  why  it  would  be  impolitic  to  alter  the  amount 
demanded  for  a  license  in  New-York,  or  require  a  license  elsewhere. 

In  1 819,  when  the  lottery  law  was  revised,  the  sum  of  8500  was  required  for 
a  license  in  the  city  of  New-York,  $100  for  the  other  cities,  and  I  think  $50  for 
the  rest  of  the  country,  for  each  office  annually,  exclusive  of  the  managers 
and  their  agents  from  whom  none  was  required.  The  consequence  was,  that 
the  sales  were  confined  to  four  offices  in  New-York,  and  so  few  in  the  countrv. 
that  it  was  impossible  to  go  on  with  any  hope  of  success;  and  the  following 
year,  the  tax  for  license  in  New-York  was  reduced  to  $250,  and  the  country 
tax  repealed  ;  and  I  believe  the  same  result  will  again  be  produced,  if  the  pro- 
posed measure  to  tax  high  for  a  license  be  finally  adopted.  I  am  satisfied  that 
this  source  of  income,  to  the  institutions  /4  the  deaf  and  dumb,  and  the  New- 
York  free  school,  will  be  in  a  great  measure,  if  not  entirely  lost ;  for  we  will  he 
obliged  to  appoint  agents,  unless  there  shall  be  licensed  venders  sufficient  to  do 
the  requisite  business.  I  appeal  with  confidence  to  any  of  the  gentlemen  con- 
nected with  those  institutions,  whether  all  has  not  been  done  that  was  in  our 
power,  to  constrain  the  persons  who  purchased  from  us,  to  take  out  a  license, 
or  at  least  to  pay  the  sum  required  for  that  license,  to  the  treasurer  of  the  in- 
stitutions. We  have  avoided  the  appointment  of  agents  in  New- York  for  this  ex- 
press purpose.  There  is  another  circumstance  that  will  reduce  the  number  of 
venders  in  New-York  and  in  the  country.  All  their  sales  hereafter  will  be  con- 
fined to  one  set  of  lotteries;  their  ability  to  pay  a  heavy  license  duty,  will  be 
less  than  it  now  is;  and  even  at  the  present  price  of  license,  I  doubt  whether 
the  business  can  support  more  than  eight  or  ten  offices. 

We  have  been  frequently  under  the  necessity  of  giving  v  liberal  credit  in  the 
disposition  of  our  tickets.  This  necessity  has  occasioned  us  frequent  and  heavy 
losses  ;  and  the  terms  of  our  contract  are  such,  that  all  those  losses,  together 
with  such  as  shall  arise  from  tickets  on  hand,  must  first  be  borne  by  us  to  the 
full  extent  of  our  ability  to  pay;  and  if  we  are  unable  to  meet  (hem,  then  by 
the  institutions  for  which  we  act.  It  is  therefore  impossible  for  me,  or  either  of 
us  to  say  what  will  be  our  situation,  when  the  term  of  our  contract  shall  be  end- 
ed. The  same  inquiry  was  made  in  1823,  and  the  language  of  my  communi- 
cation then,  has  been  verified  much  sooner  than  I  apprehended.  From  what 
we  have  already  suffered,  the  prospect  is  not  promising ;  and  unless  our  busi- 
ness can  be  transacted  with  greater  safety  than  it  has  been  hitherto  in  this 


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state,  we  might  rather  never  have  engaged  in  it.  It  is  a  fact,  that  we  are  now 
great  losers  by  our  contract  with  the  institutions. 

In  answer  to  the  questions  contained  in  your  memorandum,  I  bv%  leave  further 
to  state,  that  the  three  first  questions  are  answered  by  the  reports  made  by  the 
literary  institutions  last  year  and  this  year,  and  61ed  in  the  office  of  the  Secre- 
tary of  State,  a  copy  of  which  I  annex  to  this  communication,  which  questions 
are, 

1st.  How  many  lotteries  have  been  drawn  under  the  act  of  1822,  and  when  ? 

2d.  The  amount  of  the  scheme  price  of  the  tickets  in  each  class,  and  how 
many,  and  what  proportion  of  the  tickets  you  sold,  and  for  how  much  ? 

3d.  The  time  of  drawing  of  each  lottery  ? 

The  other  questions  are  not  answered  by  any  report  of  the  institutions  or  our- 
selves, because  they  are  not  properly  within  the  limit  of  legislative  or  any  oth- 
er inquiry,  except  between  the  contracting  parties  or  creditors,  relative  to  the  es- 
tate of  bankrupt  debtors. 

We  feel  however  an  anxiety,  that  with  regard  to  our  affairs,  all  should  be 
known.  I  therefore  proceed  to  answer  them  to  the  extent  of  what  information 
is  now  in  my  power.    The  questions  are, 

4th.  The  amount  ofcharges  on  each  lottery  or  class,  as  made  by  you,  upon 
what  those  charges  were  made,  and  all  and  every  drawback  or  other  cause, 
for  which  the  amount  to  be  paid  over  as  the  neat  proceeds  thereof,  has  been 
in  any  way  reduced  ? 

5th.  How  much  you  have  paid  over  to  the  literary  institutions  as  the  neat 
proceeds  thereof,  and  when  ? 

These  questions,  it  will  readily  be  perceived,  cannot  be  fully  answered,  w  ith- 
out a  reference  to,  and  miuute  examinations  of  our  books  throughout,  from  the 
commencement  of  our  operations.  In  a  concern  extended  as  ours  is,  the  amount 
of  annual  expenditure  is  very  great  Our  regular  expenses  are  fully  equal  to 
8 1000  per  week,  and  we  cannot,  with  a  due  regard  to  the  accuracy,  responsi- 
bility and  character  of  the  persons  employed,  and  safety  to  ourselves,  lessen 
them.  It  would  be  exceedingly  difficult,  and  perhaps  not  possible,  to  divide 
accurately  the  expenses  appropriate  to  any  one  set  of  lotteries  from  the  others. 
We  have  indeed  attempted  such  a  division  on  our  own  books  for  our  own  satis- 
faction, withno  expectation,  however,  that  this  would  ever  become  a  subject 
ot  examination,  unless,  in  consequence  of  misfortune,  those  books  should  pass 
into  other  hands.  This  part  of  the  question,  therefore,  1  am  so  utterly  unable 
to  answer,  removed  as  I  am  from  books  of  account,  that  I  must  necessarily  pass 
it  over  with  what  I  have  said.  The  answer  to  the  latter  part  of  this  question, 
and  the  whole  of  the  last,  are  so  intimately  connected,  inconsequence  of  our 
contract,  that  they  must  be  answered  together.  The  amount  due  the  public 
institutions  interested  in  the  literature  lotteries,  as  will  appear  from  the  Comp- 
troller's report  of  1822,  was  8322,256  81.  The  act  to  limit  the  continuance  of 
lotteries  authorised  said  institutions  either  to  assume  conjointly,  or  to  appoint 
one  of  their  number  to  assume  the  management,  hazard  the  losses,  and  become 
responsible  for  the  prizes  of  said  lottery.  Some  of  the  institutions  declining  a 
participation  either  in  whole  or  in  part,  in  so  hazardous  an  undertaking,  sold 
out  their  entire  interest  therein.  The  other  institutions  agreed  to  Bet  apart  the 
same  per  centum  allowance,  formerly  made  bylaw  for  supervision  and  manage- 
ment, as  a  residuary  fund  for  the  indemnification  of  such  institution  as  should, 
in  behalf  of  the  rest,  consent  to  assume  the  supervision  of  said  lottery,  and  be- 
come responsible  for  the  expenses  to  be  incurred,  the  hazards  run,  and  the  los- 
ses sustained,  in  conducting  the  same,  whether  arising  from  an  ultimate  failure 


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on  the  part  of  the  persons  contracting  therefor  in  the  6ale  of  tickets  granted 
or  in  the  payment  of  prizes  drawn.  Under  these  circumstances,  the  trustees 
of  Union  college  assumed  the  management,  and  became  responsible  for  the 
claims  that  existed,  or  that  might  arise  thereafter  against  the  literature  lottery ; 
and  we  contracted  with  the  said  trustees  for  the  whole  amount  of  tickets  au- 
thorised to  be  sold  and  drawn  therein.  We  stipulated  to  pay  for  the  printing 
and  preparation  of  tickets,  and  to  pay  all  the  prizes  as  the  same  should  be 
drawn,  and  to  pay  to  the  said  trustees,  in  behalf  of  the  institutions  interested* 
the  sum  of  $276,090  14,  together  with  the  lawful  interest  annually  accruing 
thereon,  within  the  time  limited  by  law  for  finishing  said  lottery.  The  whole 
amount  of  compensation  to  which  we  are  entitled  by  this  scale  of  computation 
for  our  labors,  expenses,  hazards  and  losses,  is  four  per  cent  upon  the  publish- 
ed schemes.  I  cannot  say  from  memory  what  amount  has  been  actually  paid 
over  to  the  institutions.  It  is  however  extremely  unpleasant  to  be  obliged  to 
add,  that  so  great  has  been  the  embarrassment  which  we  have  experienced,  and 
the  losses  have  been  so  appalling,  that  we  have  been  obliged  to  call  on  the  in- 
stitution for  assistance  in  the  payment  of  prizes  to  a  much  greater  amount  than 
has  been  deposited  by  us  to  the  residuary  fund  set  apart  by  the  institutions  in- 
terested as  aforesaid  for  that  purpose.  Every  effort  in  our  power  will  and  must 
be  made  to  refund  the  amount  thus  supplied  for  the  payment  of  prizes,  and  in 
the  end  to  save  harmless  the  institutions,  if  possible,  which  assumed  the  respon- 
sibility. But  whether  this  will  be  the  case,  or  how  soon,  if  ever,  depends  on 
future  events,  many  of  which  no  effort  of  ours  can  control.  Exclusive  of  the 
amount  for  the  institutions,  is  the  sum  authorised  to  be  raised  by  law,  and  which 
was  transferred  to  the  corporation  of  New- York,  for  the  erection  of  a  fever 
hospital.  This  is  now  vested  in  us  by  transfer  from  them.  Finding,  after  we 
had  made  this  contract  with  the  city  of  New-York,  that  we  had  assumed  more 
than  we  were  able  to  perform,  in  1824  I  petitioned  in  behalf  of  my  partner  and 
myself,  for  longer  time  to  pay  the  amount  required  to  be  paid  into  the  treasury 
for  this  trannsfer,  with  interest  annually.  The  report  of  Mr.  Warren,  the  chair- 
man of  the  committee  to  whom  that  subject  was  referred,  will  be  found  in  the 
Journal  of  that  year,  page  171.  The  request  was  deemed  reasonable,  and  a 
bill  for  that  purpose  passed  the  Assembly,  but  was  rejected  by  the  Senate.  We 
were  therefore  compelled  to  borrow  the  money  elsewhere,  and  this  grant  is  now 
pledged  for  all  its  value,  and  we  must  provide  for  the  interest  on  it  semi-annual- 
ly. In  addition  to  these  engagements,  in  consequence  of  the  law  of  last  winter, 
authorising  the  corporation  of  Albany,  with  the  consent  of  the  literary  institu- 
tions, to  unite  the  sale  of  their  lands  with  the  money  lotteries  yet  to  be  drawn, 
we  contracted  with  them  to  unite  them  with  our  other  contracts,  and  conduct 
the  whole,  which  we  agreed  to  do  without  any  deduction  from  their  value,  or 
other  compensation.  These  lands  are  appraised,  in  the  aggregate,  at  a  sum 
exceeding  §250,000,  and  this  we  have  contracted  to  do  within  the  time  allow- 
ed to  finish  the  money  lotteries  only.  So  that  in  no  event,  and  under  no  circum- 
stances, can  the  lotteries  extend  beyond  that  limit  of  time.  Having  thus  given 
as  full  an  answer  to  your  questions  as  the  circumstances  in  which  I  am 
placed  will  allow,  and  as  full  and  yet  succinct  an  account  as  I  thought  the  na- 
ture of  our  business  required,  permit  me  to  draw  your  attention  to  the  effect 
which  must  necessarily  be  produced  by  these  continued  attacks.  In  the  va- 
rious lotteries  drawn  in  this  state  since  1822,  there  have  been  remaining  on 
hand  about  50,000  tickets,  and  in  one  single  instance  only,  if  my  recollection 
be  correct,  did  those  tickets  draw  in  prizes  a  sum  equal  to  their  cost  to  us  ; 
and  in  most  classes  we  have  unfortunately  met  with  great  losses  from  this  cause 
only,  besides  losses  from  bad  debts  to  an  immense  amount,  especially  last  year, 
when  all  the  profits  of  our  operations  were  swept  off*  by  the  large  New- York' 
class.  But  for  the  prompt  and  efficient  aid  of  our  friends,  and  one  particular- 
ly, Mr.  James  of  this  city,  we  must  have  stopped  payment,  and  been  ruined, 
and  very  probably  injured  many  of  our  friends.  I  am  told,  in  the  class  drawn 
on  the  3 1  st  of  last  month,  upwards  of  5000  tickets  remained  on  hand,  and  we 
lo6t  another  large  sum  by  the  class.  This  was  owing  to  the  effect  produced  by 
the  recent  course  pursued  towards  us.   In  addition  to  this  effect,  we  have,- 


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and  must  continually  have,  a  large  amount  of  money  standing  out  in  the  hands 
of  men  who  cannot  bear  the  losses  arising  from  repeated  and  unexpected  dis- 
couragements. The  burthen  of  their  losses  must  be  borne  by,  and  may  ulti- 
mately destroy  us.  It  becomes  therefore  important  that  the  public,  as  well  as 
we  ourselves,  should  know  what  our  rights  are.  If  we  have  any,  let  us  be  pro- 
tected by  them.  I  have  hastened  this  communication  before  I  could  hear  from 
New- York,  since  receiving  the  interrogatories.  What  I  have,  however,  been 
enabled  to  state  from  recollection,  and  the  documents  I  could  procure  here, 
will,  I  hope,  prove  sufficiently  satisfactory. 

I  will  now  therefore  only  add,  if  every  ticket  in  each  class  had  been  sold 
without  loss,  and  the  institutions  fully  paid,  our  compensation  could  not  have 
exceeded  four  per  centum  on  the  whole  amount.  This  is  a  less  commission 
than  is  usually  allowed  in  regular  mercantile  business  of  far  less  labor  and  ex- 
pense, and  no  comparative  hazard.  To  say  nothing  of  the  enormous  losses  in- 
curred on  actual  sa|es,  the  fact  is  that  a  large  amount  of  tickets  in  almost  every 
class  has  remained  on  our  hands  unsold;  thus  reducing,  as  I  have  before  said, 
the  actual  commission  received  to  a  far  less  per  centage,  and  connected  with 
other  losses,  sweeping  off  the  whole.  Notwithstanding  the  clamor  that  has 
been  raised  against  our  extravagant  profits,  and  the  frequent  legislative  inqui- 
ries to  which  we  have  been  called  to  reply,  I  repeat  the  declaration,  and  if  le- 
gally required,  can  satisfactorily  prove,  that  from  this  laborious,  porp'exing  and 
perilous  business,  pursued  by  us  with  unremitting  assiduity,  for  some  years  un- 
der our  contract,  we  have  not  yet  realized  a  single  dollar  of  profit ;  and  but  for 
the  avails  of  more  advantageous  contracts  made  in  other  states,  and  for  the 
timely  assistance  received  from  the  institutions,  and  from  personal  friends  in 
this  state,  we  must,  with  all  our  supposed  extravagant  gains,  before  this,  have  been 
involved  in  irretrievable  ruin. 

With  the  greatest  respect, 

I  am  your  obedient  servant. 

J.  B.  YATES. 

Many.  February  19th,  1827. 


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Documents  accompanying  lY\c  pxcccoAng  Uo\\\m\\\\icatton. 

A  certified  copy  of  the  amount  of  tickets  at  their  scheme  price  in  all  the 
classes  drawn,  up  to  the  31st  January,  1826,  in  the  lottery  under  the  act 
to  limit  the  continuance  of  lotteries,  passed  April  5th,  1822,  which  schemes  are 
all  formed  by  fixing  the  amount  of  money  actually  to  be  paid  out  in  prizes  and 
the  number  of  tickets  to  be  contained  in  the  class,  the  dividing  of  the  amount 
of  prize  money  it)  the  class  by  the  number  of  tickets  given,  the  price  of  tickets 
estimated  at  their  scheme  price.  The  authorised  selling  price  of  the  tickets  is 
such  an  advance  price  that  fifteen  per  cent,  being  deducted  therefrom,  the  re- 
mainder will  be  equal  to  the  scheme  price. 


1 

WHEN  DRAWN. 

No.  of  class. 

Whole  No-  of 
tickets  in  each 
class. 

Amount  of  tickets  in 
each  class,  esti- 
mated at  scheme 
price. 

Amount  oftickets  in 
each  class,  estima- 
ted at  their  autho- 
rised selling  price. 

No  oftickets  in 
each  class  un- 
sold. 

Amount  oftickets  in  each 
class  actually  sold  and 
drawn,    estimated  at 
scheme  price. 

1823,  May 

20, 

l 

6,545 

$44,506 

$52,360 

$44,560  00 

(t 

July 

23, 

2 

19,600 

83,300 

98,000 

239-L 

4,1/0  8 

82,283  72 

July 

26, 

Albany,  1 

4,060 

10,353 

12,180 

355 

9.447  75 

it 

Oct. 

15, 

3 

19,600 

91,630 

107,800 

91,630  00 

u 

Dec. 

3, 

4 

19,'W) 

1 16,620 

137,200 

5084 

113,593  68 

1824 

,  Jan. 

7, 

5 

19,600 

83,300 

98,000 

83,300  00 

« 

Alar. 

17, 

6 

34,220 

145,435 

171,100 

1171 

144.935  63 

it 

June 

16, 

7 

34,220 

232,696 

273,760 

«23| 

227,094  50 

it 

Aug. 

W, 

1 

34,220 

145,435 

171,100 

145.435  00 

u 

Oct. 

20, 

2 

34,220 

115,435 

171,100 

127 

144,895  25 

ti 

Dec. 

15, 

3 

34,220 

145,435 

171,100 

180 

144,670  00 

1825 

,  April 

16, 

4 

34,220 

145,435 

171,100 

145.435  00 

u 

'July 

20, 

1 

34,220 

232,696 

273,760 

1,613 

221,727  60 

U 

Sept. 

20, 

2 

45,760 

194,480 

228,800 

6.925 

165,048  75 

1826,  Jan. 

19, 

3 

14,190 

482.460 

567,600 

2,623| 

393,269  50 

Total, 

•  •  • 

15 

388,495 

82,299,216 

$2,704,96o|  13,512! 

82,157,272  38 

I  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  is  a  true  copy  of  the  amount  of  tickets 
at  their  scheme  price,  in  all  the  classes  of  the  aforesaid  lottery,  up  to  the  time 
stated  ;  and  that  the  statement  of  tickets  remaining  unsold  in  each  class,  is  a 
true  copy  of  a  return  made  from  the  books  of  John  B.  Yates  and  Archibald 

M'latvre,  March  8th,  1826. 

JONAS  HOLLAND,  Register  of  Union  College. 


A  certified  copy  of  the  amount  of  tickets  at  their  scheme  price,  in  all  the 
classes  (not  before  reported,)  drawn  under  the  act  to  limit  the  continuance  of 
lotteries,  up  to  the  31st  ot  August,  1826.  When  the  consolidated  lottery  com- 
menced under  the  act  of  April  7th,  1 826,  the  schemes  of  which  classes  enumerat- 
ed in  this  certificate,  are  formed  in  the  manner  slated  in  the  certificate  filed  on 
the  8th  day  of  March,  1826,  in  the  office  of  the  Secretary  of  this  State. 


WHEN  DRAWN. 

Number 
i»f  class. 

Whole  No.  ot 
tickeU  iu  each 
class 

Amoujit  of  tickets 
in  each  class  esti- 
mated at  scheme 
price. 

Amount  ot  tickets  in 
each  class  estima- 
ted atthoir  uutho- 

,  rised  selling  price. 

No.  of  tickets 
in  each  class 
unsold. 

Amount  tit  tickets  in  each 
class  actually  sold  and 
drawn,    estimated  at 
scheme  price. 

1826,  Feb.  22, 
•«     Apnl  5. 
il     June  1, 
«     July  19, 
"     August  30. 

1 

2 
3 
4 
5 

34,220 
31,220 
31,220 
34,220 
31,220 

$116,348 
87,261 
145,435 
116,348 
87,261 

$136,880 
102,660 
171,100 
136,880 
102,660 

5,561 
585' 
2,734 
2,897§ 
4,799| 

$114,630  00 
100,903  50 
157,430  00 
125,290  00 
88,261  50 

Total,. . . 

5 

171,100 

$552,653 

$650,180 

16,57711  $586,521  00 

(       7.  ) 


1  hereby  certify  that  the  foregoing  is  a  true  copy  ol  the  amount  of  tickets  at 
itieir  scheme  price,  in  all  the  classes  of  the  aforesaid  lottery,  for  the  time  above 
stated,  and  the  statement  of  tickets  remaining  unsold  in  each  class,  is  a  true 
copy  of  a  return  made  from  the  books  of  John  B.  Yates  and  Archibald  M'ln- 
tyre.  January  1827. 

JONAS  HOLLAND. 


jr.1'  Jf 


